There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it away.

We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind.

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day.

My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist.

Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road.

You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be.

Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes.

Do not get caught pursuing the goals of who you used to be instead of who you are.

The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become.

Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.

The Lord’s holy fire lit my path.

I am not a philosopher

We take one group of people and we demonize them. Trying to turn people against our Muslim friend and neighbors.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

If your ideas are good they rise, and if they're a bit crap they sink.

Man is ill because he is never still.

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain